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in on the gingrich bus. i asked were they elated, were they exciting, doing touchdown dances? the answer is no, they were very humbled by the results down here in south carolina. and anderson, i think what happened here is that conservatives in this state, republicans in the state said they couldn't care less about newt gingrich's personal life. what they did care about was a candidate taking it to the establishment, taking it to the republican establishment, not only around the country but here in social. it was the governor of this state who was on the mitt romney team, not on the newt gingrich team. he was going after the media, which we talked about again and again, and conservatives like that, as well. but it was interesting to listen to newt gingrich's victory speech here tonight, because it wasn't so much about his rival. we heard him go on and on about mitt romney on the campaign trail. this one was about president obama and what he considers to be a food stamp president, something that he's said time and again. here's just a little bit of what he had to say with respect to that line o

no polls show him leading over gingrich, but newt strikes back. >> the message we should give mitt romney is you know, we aren't that stupid and you aren't that clever. >> at least he got half right. >> the senate speaks out on the two year anniversary of citizen's united, what it's meant for this election and future ones. chris christy threaten to say veto same-sex marriage in new jersey. >> let's let the people decide. >> as other states move toward legalization. >> bang, boom, straight to the moon. >> we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be americans. >> how long until we can send him there? >> "countdown" contributor on newt's lunar fantasy. all this and more on "countdown." >> good evening, this is thursday january 26, 286 days until the 2012 presidential election. i'm sitting in tonight for keith olbermann. mitt romney getting help from one time gop leaders as he looks to crush newt gingrich while president obama's shot at reelection gets a boost from the economy. panic over the fact that newt might actually win and economic numbers that could mean good news

the newt gingrich pack and a lot more. now he's on attack. romney tried to land the latest attack on gingrich for his association with freddie mac. romney hammered him with his pay in the debate. >> you said you were paid $1.6 million as a historian. they weren't hiring you as a historian, and this contract proves you weren't a hiss tore yal. it doesn't say you provided historical experience, you were hired as a consultant. you were making over a million dollars at the same time people in florida were being hurt by millions of dollars. >> this is a good example. as a businessman, you know that the gross revenue wasn't your personal income. we had three offices, the company was being paid. my share annually was about $35,000 a year, and the fact is i offered strategic advice largely based on history, including my history in washington. >> just one of the many exchanges we'll bring in tonight. let's bring in pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the "washington post," and also richard wolf. richard, did romney lay any hands on gingrich tonight? i think that was ms. mission, to try to

gwen: it's getting nasty out there. mitt romney versus newt gingrich. president obama versus a still sputtering economy. we'll tell you what one has to do with the other, tonight on washington war -- "washington week." and it's on. >> i'm not anti-immigrant. my father was born in mexico. my wife's father was born in wales. they came to this country. >> maybe governor romney should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been closed by his investments. gwen: republican frontrunners jock acquit for first place as the runnest up struggle for attention. >> folks, a billion dollars in the mainstream media will make this a very, very election. >> i don't think we should go to the moon. i think maybe we should send some politicians up there. gwen: florida is pivotal, again. meanwhile, the man they want to beat wraps himself inspect trappings of the presidency -- whether traveling the country -- >> hello, nevada. gwen: or delivering a pointed state of the union address. >> the state of our union is getting stronger. gwen: but is the economy rebounding qu

gingrich win in south carolina shakes up this race. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. electoral tide a week ago that seemed to be carrying mitt romney to the presidential nomination shifted to newt gingrich as the candidates turn their attention from south carolina to florida. the next primary battleground. chief political correspondent carl cameron begins our coverage in panel the. >> reporter: buoyed by the south carolina victory over mitt romney, newt gingrich rallied a sparse crowd in tampa and urged conservatives to unite around the candidacy and reject tort of romney attacks. >> we moved from romney is pious to romney is -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: since the south carolina win, russell poll on sunday shows gingrich leading romney 41 to to 32. rick santorum 11. ron paul 8%. when asked who will win the nomination romney blows away gingrich 52 to 35%. real clear politics average of polls shows it closer between gingrich and romney but most surveys were taken before the speaker south carolina triumph. after weeks of defensive hedging, romney will r

on the race for the white house. >> newt gingrich seizes the lead as the campaign heads for florida. >> newt gingrich is south carolina's choice. it's a major blow to mitt romney's campaign. >> this is a hard fight because there's so much worth fighting for. >> four republicans went into this southern brawl. who will be left standing as the contest moves to florida? the votes are in. south carolina has spoken. and the biggest battleground yet is still ahead. rick santorum at 17%. ron paul at 13%. all the candidates say they are moving forward to florida. we have reporters stationed throughout south carolina as we have for the last several weeks. let's start off with gingrich headquarters. there are still a lot of folks there, romney headquarters looks like a ghostown. does the candidate move to florida tomorrow? >> reporter: you know, we're still waiting to hear about his travel plans. it's been on interesting day watching the gingrich campaign. this is a candidate who tends to shoot from the hip. i did catch up with somebody a few moments ago and they were watching the returns come in on th

news" is next. tonight nbc news can project newt gingrich has won the south carolina primary, a dramatic reversal of fortune in the race for the republican nomination. >>> winter blast. after a mild start to the season, tonight there's snow and ice from coast to coast. and another twist from mother nature on the way. >>> and the captain's story. he's been called the most hated man in italy. now, what he says really happened when disaster struck at sea. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. we begin with a stunning result tonight in south carolina. just a short time ago, the polls in that state's presidential primary closed, and nbc news can project that newt gingrich is the winner. nbc news projects that mitt romney will finish in second place. it's unclear yet whether rick santorum or ron paul will finish third. gingrich's win caps off a spectacular reversal of fortune after mitt romney finishes in iowa and new hampshire. three different winners of the first three republican contests, when just a few days ago, it looke

to get back on the right track. [applause] >> this week, newt gingrich not to out of the park in south carolina and the debates were a major factor. >> i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. >> isn't this where mitt romney was supposed to be coasting to victory? >> we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. >> why can't he figure out how to get his tax story straight? >> it is closer to the 15% raise. >> by was slips away. >> guess what, we defeated mitt romney in iowa. >> present obama rejects the keystone oil pipeline projects. hello campaign issue. >> the president's decision to veto the keystone pipeline - [boos] you have to wonder how out of touch with reality this administration is. ♪ ♪ >> hi there, we will try to stay in touch with reality. we have more in the south carolina primary. newt gingrich arises from the dead once again. he kicked the guy was supposed to be the front runner all over the palmetto state and begins running against barack obama. >> i believe the debate we will have with president obama over the next

he is saying things that are false. >> saying that gingrich is a lobbyist, is a matter of fact. >> indeed, it is getting hot in here. >>> we begin as the republicans backyard brawl moves south just hours from tonight's nbc debate in tampa with the surging swinger, newt gingrich on the collision course with mitt romney. gingrich lashed out hitting mitt with his favorite lunch meat attack. >> it's such bologna. >> that after mitt made it clear his gloves are off going after gingrich this morning as the cay street candidate. >> if you're working for a company, getting paid for a company through one of your many entities and speaking with congressmen in way that would help that company, that's lobbying. >> absolutely, mr. romney. not to be stopped there, romney hit harder against gingrich's infamous instability. >> question see an october surprise today from newt gingrich. look at the speaker's record over time. it's been highly erratic. he's gone from pillar to post almost like a pinball machine. >> one begins to wonder if there's signs of instability within the faltering romney c

" from new york, breaking news, this is the contract that mitt romney's all uptight about. newt gingrich just released it, we'll go through it. the freddie mac deal. kind of a sweet deal. sheldon sheldon adelson cut a check. mitt romney is sinking in the polls, not only florida but nationally. guess what the republican party is doing? i think they are drinking tonight. this is "the ed show," let's get to work. >> he was a failed leader. he had to resign in disgrace. >> we moved from romney's baloney to desperate baloney. he will open up a delli. >>> the fight for florida is exploding on the campaign trial. newt gingrich is now in front. >> i did not think i had lived a good enough life to be rewarded by newt gingrich being the republican nominee. >> tonight, massachusetts congressman barney frank and "hardball'"''s" chris matthews l bedate. >> we do our laundry, we will be on the road for 30 days, who else will do the laundry? >> we're hanging mitt's gla glamorous life out to dry with martin bashir, joan walsh. >> if that is what the president will talk about tuesday night it's pathetic.

is the the growing anti-religious bigotry. >> and newt gingrich hot on trashing of the media, now going after anti-religious people. will that help his campaign? bernie goldberg has some thoughts. if you believe that line, that the newt gingrich is the outsider, that will shake things up in washington and then i guess you'll believe that bill clinton didn't inhale. and mitt romney trying to get tougher because his campaign is sinking. and we'll tell if the governor can matcho up. >> we're not choosing a talk show host, we're talking somebody who will lead the free world. >> ♪ and the rocket's red glare ♪ >> what song is steven tyler singing? walk this way, steven right off the field. >> bill: caution, you're about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thank you for watching us tonight. can newt gingrich continue his rise? that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. and congratulations newt gingrich for the victory on saturday in south carolina, and we suggest send candy and flowers to abc news and cnn. those agencies tried to use the fo

carolina primary. let's run through the news. rick perry dropped out and endorsed newt gingrich. a recount in iowa showed rick santorum got more votes than mitt romney. newt's second ex-wife told abc news he asked for an open marriage long after he had begun his affair with calista. newt unleashed an ad calling mitt desperate and dishonest, and newt has passed mitt in several polls in south carolina. we'll put it all together at the top of the show. plus, has mitt's air of inevitablity gotten thin? rick perry supporters are likely to go to newt. his shares at bain capital pay hurt him. and mitt can't get out of his own way when it comes to talking about taxes and his own wealth. if mitt didn't win iowa and doesn't win south carolina, he will not be 3-0, but 1-2. also a new poll shows how much trouble president obama may have with independent voters who aren't sold on the republicans either. that may explain why the president is up with his first ad of the campaign. and we mentioned that newt gingrich's second ex-wife said he wanted an open marriage. the ex-wife of mark sanford joins us ton

. newt gingrich. or banking a lot of video foota footage. john heileman, we are fwguessin by what margin the mitt romney need to end this thing and put it away? those are two different questions, alex and first of all, i want to make sure that i'm to record predicting what the outcome will be. i believe the margin will be 2.7394. >> i think that is pi squared by pi. i'm kidding but i like the decimal points. please continue. >> i offer that. i think that there are two different questions one is what the media narrative is coming out of florida. and what is coming outside of newt gingrich's head, if romney wins in double digits i think a lot of people in the press will call it a huge victory, i don't think that they will say that he has wrapped the nomination up, he will not have done that, and the fact that the media has a rooting interest in keeping the race going, there's people that want to see the race go on. they will be abetted by point number two hwhich is to say, i don't think that there's anything that will stop gingrich from fighting another month or at least into march. he is

romney goes on the attack against newt gingrich. tonight our nbc news debate coming at another critical moment in the gop race. >>> sudden impact. entire neighborhoods destroyed in an instant as deadly and dangerous storms rip through the south in the month of january. >>> her mission, following the surise announcement she'll resign from congress, gabby giffords finishes the event she had started on that awful day in tucson. >>> the amazing rescue captured on camera. a family, a plane crash at sea and the good samaritans that risked their own lives to save them. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening from tampa. we are down here on stage now at the university of south florida. tonight's debate, as we said, comes at another crucial time in this ongoing gop primary fight. the florida primary now eight days away, and newt gingrich comes in here tonight with momentum coming off his win in south carolina. mitt romney is now on the defensive coming off his loss in south carolina. and he went after gingrich today by name, calling him erratic a

appalled you would begin a presidential debate with a topic like that. newt gingrich -- >> his second wife weighs in. >> he wanted an open manage. >> that i accept the fact he has somebody else. >> a rough week for mitt romney. the issue, taxes. >> i have been paying probably closer to the 15% rate. >> to root assault on the wound, iowa bank slips away. >> we defeated mitt romney in my or. >> president obama rejects the keystone pipeline project. >> no other way to put it. the president is selling out american jobs for politics. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> ok, first, housekeeping. full disclosure for our pbs audiences. we are putting this together friday, we have to get it out to our pbs stations that day but the primary is saturday. so if you are watching this program on sunday and it appears data -- dated, it is. but we soldier on. the field of candidates for the republican presidential nomination is narrowed to four. jon huntsman, rick perry got the message this week. huntsman endorses and romney, perry endorses gingrich. thursday night the remai

not interested in what they had to offer. huntsman endorses and romney, perry endorses gingrich. thursday night the remaining candidates took the stage in charleston. here is a sample. >> i am steady, i am solid, i am not going to go out and do things you are going to worry about. >> i am tired of the elite media at protecting barack obama. >> and on the question whether mitt romney would release several years of tax returns. >> maybe. i will take a look at what our documents are. >> despite the fact it now looks like mitt romney did not win the iowa caucus after all, that gingrich was coming out strong in south carolina this week, his angry ex-wife's comments notwithstanding, the self-inflicted wounds mitt romney's campaign. -- appeared to suffer because of taxes, do you think romney is still the likely nominee? >> i must say i can't believe you are starting this show with such a malicious, destructive, despicable question. i refuse to wallow in the elite media -- what was your question again? [laughter] yes, but his chances are vastly diminished. >> ok. can anything stop mitt romney? >> yes,

his political weight behind newt gingrich. >>> let's get inside how this would impact the race. mark halperin, editor at large for "time," and wayne slater, for "the dallas morning news." we do have a lot of moving parts, will you let's start with the breaking news. mark, why are we seeing it happen now, what does it ultimately mean as we ramp up to another debate? >> he did poorly in iowa, came straight here, has been showing up in polls well below 10%. he had are a choice to see things through through saturday, do very poorly, or try to control his departure more effectively. we saw jon huntsman do the same thing. sources of suggesting he's going to endorse newt gingrich. he got in in part by the notion of stopping mitt romney from being the republican nominee. he has a chance to help newt gingrich do what he could not do himself. >>> moments like this really hurt him. these are some of the gaffes. take a look. >> commerce, education, and what's the third one there? let's see. >> you can't name the third one? >> education, commerce and -- let's see. i can't. the third one i can't.

is in danger of being defeated by newt gingrich, a man with more political lives than wives. the numbers on this race right now are nothing short ofs a sounding. in a clemson university poll released less than 24 hours before the vote, gingrich with a six-point lead, 32% to romney 22%. last night updating the south carolina projection now gives gingrich an 82% chance of winning the state by more than seven points. there's even one brand new poll, not one of our favorites, t. did we mention that romney and his iowa victory snatched away from him this week? the win to santorum with a recount. ouch. joining us from columbia, south carolina, i believe you just saw him, curtis loftus is the south carolina state treasurer and the state chairman for the romney campaign. sir, good afternoon. it's a delight to have you with us. >> thank you for having me back, martin. >> before we start, mr. loftus, i just want to play for our viewers a little clip of you on this network monday talking about the upcoming vote. here it is. >> every day we get closer to the election is a good day for mitt romney. e

newt gingrich and mitt romney. today one event that could make this day even more unique. saturday morning cartoons, that super pac is out with a new ad and ask a man behind the commercial whether it's doing more harm than good to the gop. >>> from southern exposure we have a live report on how bad it might get. good morning. welcome. it's 9:00 a.m. on the's a east t and 6:00 a.m. out west. the four remaining candidates are crisscrossing south carolina as voters head to the polls today for the first primary in the south. today's vote caps off a wild week where two major candidates dropped out of the race. a salacious interview with newt gingrich's ex-wife was aired and potentially game changing debate took place after which newt gingrich rose in the polls and romney fell. nbc's peter alexander is in columbia, south carolina. >> reporter: there has been a dynamic shift within the last week. okay? we began the week on monday with nbc polls showing mitt romney led the race in south carolina by roughly 15 percentage points. today we are getting our first look at a clemson university pa

hours. >>> top story of the bottom of the hour, mitt romney and newt gingrich staging populist attacks on each other ahead of the primary. ron paul is not actively stumping in the state but he is very much in the race. chief washington correspondent james rosen looks at the paul campaign. >> my theory is people vote from their bellies. >> reporter: in the 2012 cycle, 76-year-old libertarian and 12-term congressman found a hunger among wide swaths of the g.o.p. electorate for his quirky populist style and limited government message. >> we should have the lowest tax we've had. up until 1913 it was 0%. what is so bad about that? >> to be sure, ron paul has drawn scorn from the fellow candidates at the abc news debate in cancer. >> dr. paul has a long hisserly of saying things inaccurate and false. >> you are asking could it constitutionally by done? ask the constitutionalist here. >> from the party faithful. maybe we should consider a golden rule in foreign policy. don't do to other nations what we don't want to happen to us. >> yet, with the young and singularly fervent supports and the

speaker newt gingrich, south carolina, could turn this race upside-down, once again. >> megyn: we have complete coverage of tonight's primary with our panel, here in new york. in washington, chris wallace, karl rove and joe trippi, bill hemmer will break down the results throughout the state and the fox news decision team crunching the numbers will make the call when we have a winner. >> bret: we start with martha mccallum monitoring our exit polls. >> good evening, you guys. we knew newt gingrich would make a strong run at mitt romney and that is what we are seeing in the polls. polls in south carolina, still open, but we can start to tell folks exactly how people are responding on their way out of the polls, we have seen a huge upheaval in the race in recent days, boy the mud-slinging, ex-wife tories astories and tax and the question is what do viewers think? how did it factor in? just over half say they decided the vote in the last few days, nearly half decided before that and gingrich seems to be doing well this evening among late decide,and romney is doing better with those who ma

for what's going to take place tomorrow in this state. newt gingrich the surging. mitt romney says tomorrow may end in defeat for mitt romney. nearly a week ago it was expected to be a coronation. that's how quickly things have changed. speaker gingrich's comeback began with a strong performance in a debate monday. and then last night's strong performance on cnn. >> as you know, your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news and the washington post and the story is viral on the internet. she says you came to her in 1999 at a time when you were having an affair. she said you asked her to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that? >> no. but i will. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. [ cheers and applause ] >> is that all you want to say, sir? >> let me finish, please. [ cheers and applause ] >> every person in here know

pick. ♪ got you in a stranglehold, baby ♪ >>> newt gingrich and mitt romney are in a face-off over money, women and ham. two-man horse race is on in the palmetto state primary. it's january 21st and this is "now." joining me today from salon.now, steve corn aki soon to be named show host right here on msnbc. melissa harris perry, the intrepid maggie hebertman of politico and co-authors of game change, leading lights of the home box office network, national affairs editor and "new york magazine "mike heylman and joining us from south carolina. as the voters head to the polls in south carolina today, mitt romney and newt gingrich just avoided running into each other at tommy's country ham house in greenville. >> question, where's mitt? i thought he was going to -- i thought he was going to stay and we'd have a debate here this morning. >> there was no fist a cuffs over pulled pork. i want to talk to the panel first. you guys were looking at these headlines out of south carolina. the post and courier saying who will it be? gop's day of reckoning. do we have any idea how this day will

theology. >> i think both mitt romney and newt gingrich were both trying to say that fidel castro will go to hell, and they simply didn't want to use the word "hell." >> yeah, and i don't think we should get into that kind of conversaon. boy, that's demagoguery, and it's stupid. what's the point? the guy's old. he's good evening, americans. the is now over. we have responses from msnbc's eugene robertson from the newt gingrich pack and much more. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. republican voters in florida will pick their presidential nominee one week from tomorrow. mitt romney trails newt gingrich in the latest florida polls and now he's on attack. romney tried to land the latest attack on gingrich for his association with freddie mac. beginni romney hammered him with his pay in the debate. >> you said you were paid $1.6 million as a historian. they weren't hiring you as a historian, and this contract proves you weren't a hiss tore yal. it doesn't say you provided historical experience, you were hired as a consultant. you were making over a million dollars at the same t

: rick perry bows out. newt gingrich's ex-wife speaks out. rick santorum wins apparently. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. the dynamic the republican presidential race is fluid at this hour. earlier in the day, texas governor rick perry called it quits and threw his support behind newt gingrich. gingrich has two potential problems on the horizon. an ex-wife with an apparent grudge, and a conservative rival with an apparent victory. chief political correspondent carl cameron is covering a busy day on the campaign trail. >> reporter: running last in south carolina polls, texas governor rick perry ended his presidential bid. >> today, i am suspending my campaign and endorsing newt gingrich for president of the united states. i believe newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country. we have had our differences which campaigns will inevitably have. newt is not perfect, but who among us is? >> reporter: gingrich hopes to unite south carolina conservatives as the romney alternative. >> i was very honored and very humbled to

presidential candidates and winner take all candidate could take momentum for mitt romney or give newt gingrich's a second campaign in a row. and we're tacking at what voters are telling us on the way out of the poll. my colleague is here with the commit results. >> let's take a look at what we've got. everybody is still voting and we're starting to see the trends in the exit polls that are quite interesting. this nomination process has really been a tug-of-war between two questions, and that is electability, and who is the true conservative in this race. and so, for those who say that winning in november is the most important trait. they're going for mitt romney, 58% to 33 for newt gingrich and romney though continues to be dogged by the idea that he's not a quote, true conservative. voters who are looking for a true conservative, once again, have been won over by newt gingrich's argument and gingrich is 46 and romney all the way down there at 11% with the true conservatives which is a striking number this evening. nearly twice as many are likely to say that romney is not quote, conservative e

to take a look at gingrich. i remember talking to voters in iowa and new hampshire. when they go to his events, this guy really needs his stuff. we need a really smart president. that's the most powerful part of the gingrich message and strategy. there does seem -- any vul nominee goes through these -- through a moment, the near death experience and everybody talks about it a lot. sometimes campaigns retool and sometimes they don't. obama's team did not. bush's team famously in 2000 did not. but reagan did and some others did. do we think romney -- if they retool what is it? >> let me go back. there was a retooling in 2000 in the bush campaign. ran a very idealogical campaign. >> they changed their tactic but not the people. that's what i mean. >> whether there's changes in the campaign matters less than how the candidate absorbs all of this and how mitt romney per severs, if he were to lose here, he has not gone 3-0, but he has gone 1 for 3 and he's in for a longer haul. i can't collect endorsements by established republicans and say this is game over. he has to grind it out a little b

. there was a concern that romney felt he was overdoing it and newt gingrich was bettering him in the debate and why push it. he's going to do that. he might need an extra one if early indications that newt gingrich could have a good day today. the battle for south carolina is costly. tv advertisement is 10 million and much over the last two weeks. ron paul telling me that south carolina is important. it is not do or die for him. 20 percent of the south carolina voters are said to be undecided. >> you have probably watched the battle back and forth for the heart and soul of the comment . what a former wife's comments made of newt gingrich and the team he may or may not be getting. herman cain knows that personal issues come up and change the race quick leap. yours were unprove exten did drive you from the race because they were such a distraction . and so far no indication that the prior comments from the second wife of mr. gingrich are reg mr. #2: ering. do you think they will? >> i don't think they will. the timing of the attack on newt with the interview from the previous wife was not coincidenta

the year 2019. obviously, i'm on the moon, where newt gingrich is the president of the moon. how can anybody be president of the moon, you ask, from the past, where you live? well, back what he was just candidate gingrich, president newt, that's what we call him, president newt, he not only promised a permanent colony on the moon by the end of his second term, but he declared that that colony would be an american colony. he said once he figured out a way to get a few thousand americans up here on the moon in our permanent colony here, the moon could then become the 51st state. and so, now, in 2019, puerto rico, i guess, is still just a territory, washington, d.c. is essentially still like an occupied territory, but the moon, well, now we call it north north dakota, and newt gingrich is the first president of the moon. he's sort of our george washington up here. just because i'm wearing this fake costume space suit doesn't mean i'm kidding about this. >> by the end of my second term -- we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be american. at one point early in my

. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> bret: newt gingrich riding a wave in south carolina. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. in 13 hours the polls open in south carolina, and a little more than 24 hours from now we should know the winner. a result with the potential to yet again turn this g.o.p. nomination race upside down. chief political correspondent carl cameron looks at the final full day of campaigning ahead of the vote and what the numbers are telling us. >> newt-mentum. surging in the south carolina polls after another commanding debate performance. newt gingrich sounded confident of first in the south primary win. >> tomorrow is going to be a very, very important day. with your help and with the help of any good citizens across the state of south carolina. we will take the first big step to ensure a conservative is nominated for president of the united states. >> romney has seen a double-digit lead in the south carolina polls vanish in a week. >> there is a long road ahead. newt gingrich is a feisty competitor and there is a

showdown before tuesday's important florida gop presidential primary. warming up, newt gingrich calls the mitt romney campaign dishonest and hypocritical, a sure sign he knows the former massachusetts governor has opened a small lead here. plus debate advice from the former florida governor jeb bush. you won't want to miss his advice to speaker gingrich. we learned today, surprise hillary clinton is not watching the republican debates. but the secretary of state did share some thoughts on her political future. >>> you can seat energy and the excitement here on the university of north florida campus just two hours now until our republican presidential debate here. the last showdown between the four candidates before florida votes on tuesday. polls show a close race between newt gingrich and mitt romney. the house speaker's team knows this could be the final chance to swing the florida momentum. there are some differences on tax policy and immigration policy and we expect fireworks there tonight. but more than anything else, the gop race has turned more and more testy on questions of tr

romney's poll numbers this week as collapsing. a surge in momentum for newt gingrich, being driven by a ton of super pac money and by those debates. >> more people have been put on food stamps by barack obama than any president in american history. >> she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? >> no, but i will. >> 16 days after the iowa caucuses, mitt romney, it turns out, did not win there. >> we actually won the iowa caucuses yesterday. >> people of south carolina, have a job to do. >> in 2008, john mccain won south carolina, when fred thompson split the right flank with mike huckabee. will a santorum/gingrich split on the right tonight resurrect mitt romney's chances. >> if you think china's better or rash's better or cuba's better or north korea's better, i'm glad to hear all about it. america's right and you're wrong. >> two x factors in the race, the long-shot, long-haul candidacy of ron paul. and the independent vote. >> i want you to vote for herman cain. because herman cain is me. >> what will be the r

>>> breaking news, newt gingrich has this teng just released the contract he entered into with the federal housing agency freddie mac. nbc investigative michael isikoff has these newly released documents, has been going through them, he will join us to tell us what exactly has been released tonight and whether the story told by those documents comportings with newt gingrich's explanations of how he earned that money from freddie mac. conservatives developed a critique of what happened during the financial meltdown at the enof the bush presidency, a critique plays down the importance of the deregulation of wall street and plays up the importance of freddie mac and fannie mae and other government instruments. it has been a line of attack that he took consulting fees from a housing-related public agency. he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was paid $300,000 b

for the next hour. >>> breaking news, newt gingrich has this teng just released the contract he entered into with the federal housing agency freddie mac. nbc investigative michael isikoff has these newly released documents, has been going through them, he will join us to tell us what exactly has been released tonight and whether the story told by those documents comportings with newt gingrich's explanations of how he earned that money from freddie mac. conservatives developed a critique of what happened during the financial meltdown at the enof the bush presidency, a critique plays down the importance of the deregulation of wall street and plays up the importance of freddie mac and fannie mae and other government you strength instruments. it has been a line of attack that he took consulting fees from a housing-related public agency. he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was pa

. newt gingrich, probably owes his victory in south carolina largely to those two debates, so tonight, game on in florida where nbc's debate will be critical. expect mitt romney to sharpen his attack, he's already started going after gingrich. >> now, speaker gingrich has also been leader, he was leader for four years as speaker of the house, and at the end of four years, it was proven that he was a failed leader, and he had to resign in disgrace. >> you have a clear establishment candidate in mitt romney. look where his money comes from, look at his background, look what he did in massachusetts. >> he talks about great bold movements and ideas, well, what's he been doing for 15 years, he's been working as a lobbyist and selling influence around washington. he's been working for freddie mac. >> i was not a lobbyist, never a lobbyist, don't try to miff these things up. >> mike allen and ron fornier, good morning, gentlemen. three states, three different winners, tonight's debate will be critical. when mitt romney went on attack during debates three years ago, he wasn't exactly good at

candidates have wrapped up their debate. two of them, newt gingrich and mitt romney, traded verbal punches all night. romney has a new debate, did it make a difference? you can decide for yourself in the hour ahead. the most key moments we'll pay for you. gingrich took another shot at the media. we'll see how that was received. this is the finedle bait before florida republicans vote next week. wolf blitzer was in the middle of it. we're going to talk with wolf coming up shortly. gloria borger is standing by with david gergen, donna brazile, and ari fleischer. >> governor romney, what kind of debate did you think you had tonight? >> i thought it was terrific, and i was delighted with the debate. it was a big night for me and for the people who support me. you saw the response of the audience. it's a big step forward and it's going to give me the boost i need going into the last couple days before the primary. >> you were pretty aggressive, i couldn't help but notice, in taking on newt gingrich. you seemed to turn every attack he made on you into an attack on him. particularly the attacks h

today that newt gingrich could transform the country. if you believe that, do me a favor. become his spokesperson. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> turns out romney didn't win iowa. may not win south carolina. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews. in philadelphia, leading off tonight, the final 48 hours. what an incredible second to last day before the south carolina primary. let's run through the news. rick perry dropped out and endorsed newt gingrich. a recount in iowa showed rick santorum got more votes than mitt romney. newt's second ex-wife told abc news he asked for an open marriage long after he had begun his affair with calista. newt unleashed an ad calling mitt desperate and dishonest, and newt has passed mitt in several polls in south carolina. we'll put it all together at the top of the show. plus, has mitt's air of inevitablity gotten thin? rick perry supporters are likely to go to newt. his shares at bain capital pay hurt him. and mitt can't get out of his own way when it comes to talking about taxes and his ow

tomorrow night. >>> newt gingrich has released the contract he entered into with freddie mac. he'll be joining us in just a the financial meltdown at the enof the bush presidency, a critique plays down the fannie mae and other government instruments. it has been a line of attack that he took consulting fees from a housing-related public agency. he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did do you for the money? >> i offered advice. my advice as a historian when they walked in and said we are making loans to people with no credit history. >> historians at that point crying out how much hundreds of thousands? how do i get a gig like that? the his storian line also led to this attack ad in florida by mitt romney against mr. gingrich. >> while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich

'm anti-immigrant is repulsive. don't use a term like that. >> bill: mitt romney going after newt gingrich big time last night in the debate. did he score or did the speake counter punch effectively? [bell ringing] >> bill: dick morris with the score card. >> we discovered to our shock governor romney owns sreres of both fannie ma and freddie mac. >> you have checked your own investments? u also have investment in mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> bill: money may be weighing down the republic candidates. lou dobbs on whether questionable investments will sink the g.o. in november. >> you wt after pretty hard and heavy my dear friend papa bear bill o'reilly. okay? [ laughter ] you attacked him in an interview. >> i didn't realttack him. >> bill: she really did attack me. now she is not telling the truth on national television. we'll update you on npr commentator kerry groce. >> he says that the interview was 40 minutes of defamation. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services el

in spanish. speaker gingrich, you're sending out press releases in spanish. governor romney, you're advertising in spanish. why is it okay for you to court voters in spanish but not okay for the government to serve them in spanish? speaker gingrich? >> well, first of all, you immediately jump down to a very important language but not the only language. the challenge of the united states is simple. there are 86 languages in miami dade college. 86. there are over 200 languages spoken in chicago. now, how do you unify the country? what is the common bond that enables people to be both citizens and to rise commercially and have a better life and a greater opportunity? i think campaigning historically you have always been willing to go to people on their terms in their culture whether it's greek independence day or something you did for the irish on st. patrick's day and i'm perfectly happy to have a lot of support in the hispanic community but as a country to unify yourselfourselves in a future in which there could be 300 languages spoken in the united states it

underscores the stakes of our final florida debate showdown. a tiny mitt romney lead over newt gingrich just as their battle for the gop nomination takes another bitter turn. >>> and put up or shut up. newt gingrich snaps back at nancy pelosi after she tells me if there's one thing she knows it is. this her long-time nemesis, she this her long-time nemesis, she says, will never be president. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a busy day of politics here in florida and back in washington. but we begin tonight with another stunning navy seal success story that sounds like a made for hollywood spy story. the u.s. military's daring raid to free an american woman and a danish man held by pirates in somalia. our first inkling something was up came as probe entered the house chamber last night for the state-of-the-union address. listen as he greets the defense secretary, leon panetta. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> just hours before a u.s. special operations forces parachuted into somalia near the pirates' compound. the strike team included navy 150e8s from the same unit that kill

is to believe the final polls taken last night, speaker gingrich is in good shape. we were in the green room talking about ever this and this has been a roller coaster ride unlike any other and i suspect it will provide us -- >> you're thrilled by that fact. >> if the last polls are correct, if last night's polls are correct, yeah, i think yes, i would be understandably thrilled by that. i think donna would probably be happy. >> absolutely, we're ready to take out some of the balloons that we've been storing away but look, anderson, this was a very interesting week in politics. jon huntsman dropped out, threw his support to romney. perry dropped out, threw his support to newt gingrich. rick santorum woke up, found out he won the contest in iowa and where are we today? we just don't know until we see the results tonight but we know one thing, the republicans are not ready to settle on one person yet. >> a lot of people are making up their minds at the last minute. >> that's one of the things we've seen in the exit polls, much more than four years ago, south carolina voters voted on the basis

gingrich surging ahead of mitt romney. 40% of south carolina's likely primary voters according to this poll say they would vote for gingrich. romney falls behind to just 26%. mid-week gingrich and romney were in a dead heat. south carolina is a big state but somehow this morning both gingrich and romney campaigned at the same greenville restaurant at the same time. but romney avoid ad showdown by arriving 45 minutes early and leaving just minutes before gingrich actually showed up. stay right here we'll have a live report from south carolina in a moment. >>> also this morning firefighters contained a 3,000 acre wildfire burning near reno, nevada. flames destroyed nearly 30 houses. about 10,000 people had to leave their homes but evacuation orders were lift ad couple of hours ago. investigators think they know what caused the fire. they say a man came forward yesterday admitting that he improperly discarded fireplace ashes. >>> now to italy where a 12th body was found in the cruise ship disaster. 20 people are still missing. there are also growing concerns about the environmental threat pose

nominee race or it could extend it. can newt gingrich slow down romney? chris, we all watched the debate last night. the first five minutes, the first question was about the interview with wife number would, marianne gingrich and here is how gingrich turned it to his advantage. >> she said that syou asked her sir to enter into an open marriage. would you like to respond to that? >> no, but i will. i think the vicious nature of the media makes it harder to run for office. the story was false. i'm tired of the elite media protecti protecting barack obama by attacking the republicans. >> what now can mitt romney do to try to slow newt's momentum, there were other good moments, santorum had a couple of good moments. does santorum and ron paul help romney here if they can pick up some more votes and stop newt gingrich from coalescing the anti-romney vote? >> sure, absolutely. but, i would say the debate was two hours long last night. and that clip you played was all you needed to watch. gingrich was are ready for this. don't think that newt gingrich was mad, he knew this was going to be the f

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